River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-09

died June 4, from accidental poisoning. He
had farm at Glendale aud one at Hoskins,
and while coming from the latter point to
Glendale Thursday he ate lunch which
was wrapped in paper that had previous
ly contained goPher poison, His sixteen
year-old son was with him and partook of
the food, but is probably not fatally pois-
oned. Farley was middle-aged and came
from Almont, Mich.
Lannie McAfee, wen known through
out the Northwest as a French carom
billiard expert, committed suicide at
Minneapolis, on the 3rd, by getting out of
his bed during delirium of fever and
leaping from a third story window. He
was the son of Davenport, Ia, clergyman,
where his widowed mother now resides.
His age was 81 and he was unmarried.
At Cannon Falls, Mimi, citizens are
removing as rapidly as possible all traces of
the late fire. Fifty men are at work
clearing away debris, while a number of
new buildings for temporary use are going
up. All the safes have been opened and
contents found in good shape. A carefully
revised estimate of losses places them at
Sl25U0O.
On the oath, when the freight train
dead man was seen in one of the cars pinned
against the end of il by the lumber with
which il was loaded. He had been stealing
a ride. The lumber had been thrown against
him, and he was dead before help arrived.
He proved to be Henry T.. Reese of Huron,
who leaves wife and six children.
Fifty Indian girls from the House of
the Good Shepherd, in the town of Wau-
watOsa, Wis, we're returned 10 their tribes
in Northern Minnesota and Dakota. They
are designed TO be educators of their race
So attached have they become To civilized
methods that many of the girls cried when
they came to leave their adopted home
and go back to their native home and
parents
May 81, Territorial Treasurer Ray
mond sold $4,000 Dakota bonds at a. per
cent interest and premium of S3,3}S, to
Preston * Co, of Chicago. There were bids
from New York, Cincinnati and three par
ties in Chicago. This is the first time ter
ritorial bonds have been placed at less than
per cent, and the authgrities of Dakota
are greatly gratiiied at the result of the
offer.
The committe to select the site for
the Minnesota Soldiers home have agreed
upon a tract of eighty acres near Minnehaha
Falls, divided by the Mississippi river 40
acres TO be donated by Minneapolis and 40
acres by st. Paul A committee will pro-
coed to secure title TO the land, having
the cooperation of the G. A. X. posts of the
two cities.
The old and once prosperous village
of Wilton, Mimi, which once rivaled Owa-
tonna and was the county seat of Waseca,
is thing of the past The railroads when
they came through left it to one side.
George Watkins. one of its original proplie-
tors, has now sold 10 lots to one purchaser,
and the old town site is converted into
farming lands
AT near l n. m, Sunday morning
last, at West St. Panl, MINI Thomas Nc
Carthy, aged p years, shot Harry Smith.
who had taken Mrs. Mccarthy out buggy
riding and returned with her at the hour
named. Its thought McCarthy's wounds
will not prove fatal.
Mrs. Helen Anton of Miesvillc Mimi,
was fined S69.3s and ten days in jail by Jus
tice Hayes upon the charge of selling liquor
on Sunday, and So 30 for selling liquor to
minors. Alfred Kuhn was the complaining
witness. The cases have been appealed TO
the district court
A serious washout occurred on the
9Th, to the y. p. Il. r., at Horse
plains, Mont, near Avon, and the Mullan
tunnel, where there had been trouble with
water several days earlier. This last wash
out held Westbound trains at Helena sever
aldays.
The body of VIM. Cannon, late post
master at Fort Lincoln, who has been
missing several weeks, was found in the
Missouri river 80 miles south of Mandan
The remains were buried at Winond, Oak,
June l. He had committed suicide.
At Crookston. Mimi. a roller mill
of $50 barrels per diem capacity, took fire
from overheated journals and was totally
consumed. The mill was owned by st.
Paul parties and J. c. Henler of CroOkston.
Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
New Ulm telegram, June /, Anton
Fisher, who murdered his son near Sleepy
Eye last March, plead guilty to the charge
of manslaughter in the first degree. Judge
Webber sentenced him to fifteen years at
hard labor in the penitentiary.
Frost was reported from many
points in Minnesota and Dakota on the
nth A st. Vincent dispatch says: "a
wheat. The fields this morning smell like
new mown hay"
News has Just been received at Man
sion, Calhoun county, Iowa, that Rev. DIR.
Reed, who left that place last winter to be-
come a missionary in Central Africa, had
been killed and eaten by tribe of canni-
balls.
The carpenters of st. Paul have
demanded of their employers, the con-
tractors, nine hours time with ten hours
pay, which demand was not granted and
some twelve hundred men quit work Mon
day.
At Marvel, Oak, the house of farmer
Bokkin was set on fire Saturday by two
children aged and years playing with
burning paper The house, Mrs. Bokkin
and the youngest CHILD were burned up.
At Alexandria, Dakota. MAY 25th,
Curran's agricultural warehouse and
Clarh's livery barn We're burned. Loss.
$4,000; insured for $1,000. The town had
narrow escape from total destruction.
Yankton Special; Brown, of Douglas
county, and Lewis, of Clay, both Demo
cratic members of the board of trustees of
the insane asylum have sent in their
designations to Gov. Church
Company A., of, Minneapolis re-
turned bone Sunday evening from
Washington and were given a hearty
greeting and generous collation. at their
Armory.
At MankatO, Mimi. there have been
presented to the city council thirty-three
applications for liquor licenses at $500 per
year-about ten less than at the old figures
of $3.50 per year.
DR.. f, A, Knotser, for thirteen years
editor of the Milwaukee Der Deb0te, ex-
Congressman Deuster's paper has accepted
the position of editor of the German edition
of Puck.
A boy six years old was ruL over
by a street car at Minneapolis Friday after
noon and killed The lad was playing
about the car apd not noticed by the driver.
An interesting Farmers Institute
was held at Pennington, Mimi, last week
Prof. Henry, w. d. Hoard and Theodore
Louis of Wisconsin took prominent part.
At La Crosse, Wis, June 3. officer
Reyes shot dead gambler named Tim
Brady who assaulted him with knife.
Brady was crazed with drink at the time.
At Browns Valley, Mimi, May 81,
the Round elevator, Becker & Chadbourn,
was burned, with $4,000 bushels
of wheat. Loss $4,000; partly insured.
w. Z. Clough, late attorney of the